Affiliations:- PPM = Partie des Personnes de Mauritanian (Mauritanian People's Party, to 1961 PRM) - authoritarian PRDS = Parti Républicain Démocratique et Social (Social and Democratic Republican Party, estd.1992) - authoritarian PRM = Parti Rassemblement Mauritian (Mauritanian Gathering Party, 1958-1961 PPM) UPM = Union Progressive Mauritanian Mauritian (Mauritanian Progressive Union, from 1958 PRM) Mil = Military
(Dates in italics indicate de facto continuation of office)
President Taya, who won elections in 1992 and 1997, first became chief of state through a December 12, 1984 bloodless coup which made him chairman of the committee of military officers that governed Mauritania from July 1978 to April 1992.
Atar is a town in north western Mauritania, the capital of the Adrar region and the main settlement on the airport, a museum and a historic mosque, constructed in 1674.
Mauritania and Madagascar are the only two countries in the world not to use decimal-based currency.
The newly-elected president is Борис Тадић of the opposition Демократска Странка.
The president is longtime leader Ibrahim Rugova of the Lidhja Demokratike e Kosovës, the prime minister is Bajram Kosumi of the Aleanca për Ardhmërinë e Kosovës, and the international administrator is Søren Jessen-Petersen.
The president is Celal Talabanî, and the vice presidents are عادل عبد المهدي Cādal Cabd Â’al-Mahdī and غازي عجيل الياور Ğāzī Caĝīl Â’al-Jāŭar.
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